Book
Social relations in a nomadic Lappish community
[Norsk Folkmuseum] • 2 • Published In 1955 • Pages: 178
By: Whitaker, Ian.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the social structure of a Swedish Saami reindeer nomads' community, Lainiovuoma. Whitaker, a young Scottish ethnologist, collected his data as a reindeer watcher of the period of a year in Lainiovuoma. Whitaker also used literary materials including court accounts, church registers, and the census list. The data are organized in terms of the social relations of the Lainiouvuoma Saami - relationships among themselves, with other communities, and with other 'outsiders' such as the peasants and the Saami administrators - and the contributions these relationships made to the internal integration of the community. He shows that the bilateral desent group can have a clear structure, and the absence of any form of unilineal kinship structure in a social matrix can be maintained by some other force such as the contiguity of economic interest, i.e., the demands of reindeer husbandry in Lainiovuoma.
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Saami
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Scandinavia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Hesung Koh ; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1951-1952
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1951-1952
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lainiovuoma, Sweden
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ian Whitaker
- Includes a summary in Swedish
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-162) and indexes
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Sami (European people)